Sign the petition Urge Iranian Authorities to Release Women Human Rights Defenders

Sign the petition Urge Iranian Authorities to Release Women Human Rights Defenders

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<br />Please sign this petition located&nbsp; :&nbsp; <a href="http://action.humanrightsfirst.org/campaign/Azad?rk=l1BcblK1LiEAE">http://action.humanrightsfirst.org/campaign/Azad?rk=l1BcblK1LiEAE</a><br /><br />Urge Iranian Authorities to Release Women Human Rights Defenders<strong><a href="http://action.humanrightsfirst.org/campaign/Azad/xeubwu59ae373dd?"></a></strong><strong></strong><strong></strong>On Friday, January 30, three members of the One Million Signatures Campaign, a grassroots campaign to reform gender discrimination in Iranian laws, were arrested while collecting signatures in northern Tehran.&nbsp; The three activists, Nafiseh Azad, Bigard Ebrahimi, and a third person wishing to remain anonymous, were held for several hours at the local police station before being transferred to other detention centers.&nbsp; Of the three, Azad remains in detention and is being charged with "acting against national security." The next day, on January 31, security agents came to the home of women&#39;s rights activist Alieh Eghdamdoost and escorted her to the Revolutionary Courts. She faces the imminent enforcement of a three-year prison sentence for participating in a women&#39;s rights demonstration in June 2006.&nbsp; While a number of activists were sentenced for joining that protest, none have been imprisoned to date. Eghdamdoost&#39;s imprisonment will mark a further escalation of repression of human rights defenders. Join us in protesting these repressive actions against women human rights defenders in Iran:&nbsp; Call for the immediate and unconditional release of Nafiseh Azad; andUrge the authorities to suspend implementation of Alieh Eghdamdoost&#39;s sentence and release her from custody.

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